AUSTIN, Texas - The Guinness World Record for fastest time to type the alphabet on a touchscreen mobile phone was broken four times at a conference in Texas. FULL ARTICLE

VAL-DE-MARNE, France - French authorities say a lion cub was seized from an apartment in the suburbs of Paris early this week. FULL ARTICLE

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - A train conductor in New Jersey stopped train traffic and used his tie as a makeshift leash to save a dog that wandered onto the tracks. FULL ARTICLE

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A primate sanctuary in Gainesville, Florida, is searching for a capuchin monkey that escaped on Sunday. FULL ARTICLE

BELMONT, New South Wales - An Australian man has gone viral after someone filmed him using a mobility scooter to tow a large boat on a road in New South Wales. FULL ARTICLE

HARRIS CO., Texas - One Texas driver was lucky to escape being injured when an unsecured trailer hitch went airborne and crashed through their vehicle's windshield. FULL ARTICLE

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Divers who were sent into a clogged South Carolina sewer system discovered huge masses of flushable wipes were causing the backup. FULL ARTICLE

KINGS CO., Calif. - Authorities have identified a piece of space junk that crashed down on a walnut orchard in California as a fuel tank from a satellite. FULL ARTICLE

HOUSTON, Texas - Firefighters in Houston recently shared photos of a very unusual rescue: the rescue of a pony from inside a city storm drain. FULL ARTICLE

EL DORADO CO., Calif. - A juvenile mountain lion gave an employee a moment to remember when it wandered into a bakery in California. FULL ARTICLE